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License plates have long been made by prisoners, but now they are also in the more questionable hands of artists. Standard-issue tags are competing with the burgeoning traffic of specialty plates. Drivers can flaunt their social conscience in all causes and colors. The fancy tags raise revenue, but what happens when you actually want to read the number on a plate? That has been a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...plays the familiar failure--a disappointment to his parents and bosses. Only his wife Alison (Mary McCormack from TV's Murder One) sees that this guy has star potential if he'd just be his horny self on the air. Howard gets to rant, vomit, expose his cellulite buttocks, flaunt the cinema's all-time-funniest erection and defame Don Imus and the WNBC brass. It's get-even time for the guy they called Howeird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HOW NICE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...books, videos, and equipment; a group by itself may not be able to afford such necessities as a copier or fax. Political because it provides a space for meetings and affirms the fact that Harvard University as a whole intends to actually use its diversity rather than just flaunt it. Out of the interaction this center would foster, true cultural understanding would take place. It is not a social club. It is not a final club. It is open to all. With that in mind, here are the main arguments...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Multicultural Student Center Needed | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

Although they both flaunt a sense of personal style that hasn't changed much in the past two decades, Gloria Steinem and Bob Guccione tend to part ways on most other matters. So it comes as something of a surprise that the founders of Ms. and Penthouse magazines have both seen fit to attack The People vs. Larry Flynt, Milos Forman's critically praised film (Oliver Stone is a producer). Steinem and Guccione's beef--part of a growing backlash that may end up denying the film its expected handful of Oscar nominations--is that the movie, in its efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORNOGRAPHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Nothing is more galling about the post-Dayton behavior of suspected war criminals than the way some flaunt their freedom and stolen riches. Zeljko Raznatovic, who fought under the nom de guerre Arkan, is the most notorious of Serbia's paramilitary chiefs. He personally led his 200-odd Tigers through Bosnia to rape, torture and murder. Yet he has not even been indicted, and today he shows up all over Belgrade. He lives in a luxe marble mansion that he clearly did not buy out of earnings from his cafe. He is affiliated with Belgrade's biggest soccer club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACE TO FACE WITH EVIL | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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